Prof. Alexander Byrne

Professor of Philosophy

Primary DLC

Department of Philosophy

MIT Room: 32-D934

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Perception
Metaphysics
Realism
Metaethics
Decision Theory
Wittgenstein
Philosophy of Language

Research Summary

Byrne's main research interests are color, perception and self-knowledge. He has achieved influential status in these areas partly through having co-edited the canonical sourcebook on the philosophy of color, and partly through his defense of a scientifically informed realism about perceptual conciousness and its objects.

Recent Work